Book: A Morning With Grandpa Author: Sylvia Lui Illustrator: Christina Forshay Publisher: Lee & Low Books Date: May 1, 2016 Genre: picture book for 5-8 yr; pre-school - gr 3 Pages: 32 Price: $17.95 - $23.50 My rating: a lovely story about family differences and acceptance
In talking about A Morning With Grandpa, the first thing to mention is the beautiful cover illustration of a little girl doing tai chi with her grandfather. Next to note is the gold sticker as A Morning With Grandpa won the 2013 New Voices Award!
Sylvia Lui has created a sweet story about a little girl and her grandfather who discover they can’t do exactly the same things so they learn from each other.
Mei Mei, is watching her grandpa do tai chi, so he encourages her to do poses with him. Although she tries, she has so much energy she is more bouncy than calm and her youthful excitement takes her beyond the graceful flow of movement he can do. Mei Mei then offers to teach her grandpa yoga poses which he finds a little difficult to do because he is not as nimble as his granddaughter. Despite their differences, they demonstrate patience and love toward one another and enjoy their time together, modifying their poses to what they can manage. No judgement.
A Morning With Grandpa is a book that makes the reader smile. It is refreshing to see the appreciation and acceptance between such widespread generations. The illustrations by Christina Forshay are realistic and very clearly demonstrate the art of tai chi and yoga – and the difficulty and fun Mei Mei and her grandpa have in doing each other’s preferred exercise. In the back of the book, Sylvia Lui has explanations of the different poses mentioned so that children can try them, too.
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Thank you for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂 ♥
I have heard fo this book before and I think it sounds wonderful. That relationship between children and grandparents is always so special. Another great review.
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It is a lovely story. I hope you get to read it. Thanks for your comment, Darlene.
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I absolutely loved this book! It is such a sweet story. 🙂
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I agree with you, Erik. 🙂
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This sounds like a precious book, Lynn 🙂 I really need to learn tai chi!
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I don’t think I can slow my mind enough for my body to handle doing tai chi. Might be worth a try, though. Maybe the reverse is true and doing the tai chi would help my mind not be constantly go go go all the time. If you try it, let me know how it works for you. 🙂
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Lynn, for me, it’s about the stretching and balance, not my mind. Though I’m sure if I could actually do meditation, it might help stress levels, but it’s just not for me. I’m a “go go go” person, too, so I get that! lol
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My go go go often leaves me behind, it’s my mind that’s overly busy. 🙂
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